Plain living, high thinking.

Dostoevsky & Literature

Entering moral philosophy through the novel.

Reading order

  1. 01

    Rereading The Brothers Karamazov

    I recently listened to The Brothers Karamazov as an audiobook. Back in the day during the Zhengzhou...

  2. 02

    Reading Notes on The Idiot: Christ-like Love

    Last Friday, I felt deeply unsettled—restless and troubled. I went home early, but my frustration...

  3. 03

    Humiliated and Insulted

    When watching Kurosawa’s films, I’ve always sensed something—this is Dostoevsky’s thought. Take...

  4. 04

    Vagabond and the Sublime

    Upon arriving in the Netherlands, there was a moment when I felt disoriented. Living in the free...

  5. 05

    Starting from One Hundred Years of Solitude

    Netflix’s new adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude recently launched, giving me a chance to...

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